Empires of antiquities : modernity and the rediscovery of the ancient near East, 1914-1950
A history of the rediscovery of the imperial civilizations of the ancient Near East in a modern imperial order that evolved in the early twentieth century, which explores how near eastern antiquity was redefined and experienced through the lens of imperial regulation, modes of enquiry, and internati...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2020
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| Schlagworte: | Imperialism Electronic books Alter Orient Archäologische Stätte Erforschung Geschichte 1914-1950 |
| Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 395 Seiten) |
| Zusammenfassung: | A history of the rediscovery of the imperial civilizations of the ancient Near East in a modern imperial order that evolved in the early twentieth century, which explores how near eastern antiquity was redefined and experienced through the lens of imperial regulation, modes of enquiry, and international and national politics. Cover -- Empires of Antiquities: Modernity and the Rediscovery of the Ancient Near East, 1914-1950 -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction -- Tell Brak, 1937-1938 -- Taking Stock of the Historiographies: A Note -- The New Order of Antiquities: An Entangled History and Its Agents -- The Complex of Antiquity: Some Features -- Materials, Exclusions, and Structure -- I: Antiquity and the New Post-War Imperial Order -- Chapter 1: Mandated Pasts: War, Peace, and the New Regime of Antiquities -- Loot: The First World War and the Spoils of Antiquity -- A Post-War Order: General Characteristics -- The War on the Past: Re-Defining Heritage in the Greater Great War -- Legislating and Defining Antiquity -- A Regime of Excavations: Visions of Intellectual Cooperation˛and˛Internationalist Rhetoric -- II: Biblical Pasts in Mandated Palestine -- Chapter 2: Illustrating the Bible: Travel, Archaeology, and Modernity in Mandated Biblical Lands -- Biblical Lands: A Map and Networks -- Biblical Idioms -- Biblical Travel and Its Modernization -- Biblical Materiality: Archaeology, Display, and Scriptural Antiquity -- Chapter 3: Cities of David: Planning and Excavating Jerusalem -- Earthquake -- Antiquities: Preservation, Discovery, and Renewal -- Mount Ophel: From Underground Jerusalem to the City of David-a Genealogy of Excavations -- Internationalizing Jerusalem: Publicity, the Media, and the City of David -- Caulifowers Sprout on the City of David: The Value of Antiquity -- Chapter 4: Lachish: Excavation, Land, and Violence-Tell ed-Duweir, c.1932-1945 -- A Funeral in Jerusalem -- Lachish: Identi˜cations, Texts, and Sherds -- Archaeology and Physical Anthropology: Collaborations and Interpretations -- Colonial Collaborations. |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 395 Seiten) Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9780192558015 0192558013 9780198824558 0198824556 |